GTK+ 2.6.8

The GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) hit 2.6.8 today, with the release announcement over here. This is mostly a bug squashing release, so most of you won't be interested. There is one feature that I'm looking forward to, however, in the file chooser. The first point on the changelog states: * GtkFileChooser - Don't select first row in SELECT_FOLDER mode [Christian Neumair]. This isn't really a bug fix as much as it is an annoyance fix. Here's where I see it: when using File Roller to decompress files I downloaded, I want those files to go into my home directory, so I click the "Home" quicklink in the file dialog. This should put the currently displayed directory into the home directory, and let me decompress there. What it actually does is put me in the home directory and automatically select the first item (usually a folder) in my home directory, and I can't deselect it. This results in decompressing into some directory that I don't want the files to go into. My workaround is to select the "Filesystem" quicklink, then go into /home and then select adam. Now I should be able to open the file dialog, select the "Home" quicklink, and decompress straight to my home directory.

Now I just have to wait for the libs to hit the Ubuntu repositories. This is one thing I don't like about precompiled distributions - you're always playing the waiting game.